Read full poem →2 'Secure the radiant weapons wield;
This golden lance shall guard desert;
Dictionary Entry
To make something safe or protected from danger or risk.
In a Sentence
“The police worked to secure the area after the incident to ensure everyone's safety.”
Origin
Latin 'securus' meaning 'free from care, safe'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “secure”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But now secure the painted vessel glides,
The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides:
Read full poem →Bold in arms, and bright in arts;
Land secure from all invasion,
All but Cupid's gentle darts!
Read full poem →But for that certain release, ever sign to that perilous contract?
But for that exit secure, ever bend to that treacherous doorway?—
Ah, but the bride, meantime,—do you think she sees it as he does?
Read full poem →Lo, with the rope on my loins I descend through the fissure; I sink, yet
Inly secure in the strength of invisible arms up above me;
Still, wheresoever I swing, wherever to shore, or to shelf, or
Read full poem →original sentiment. These are su<3h mistakes that neither the most exten-
sive literature nor the accuracy of a Locke's judgment can secure a man
from; nor indeed any thing but h poetic taste, a soul that
Read full poem →{62a} “Which will secure a long age for the known writer.”—Horat. _de
Art. Poetica_.
Read full poem →What flies I follow, what follows me I shun.
But thou, of thy fair damsel too secure,
Begin to shut thy house at evening sure.
Read full poem →had made the war a_ great spiritual victory,
could be relied upon to secure the legitimate fruit
of the war—the reign of universal peace. (Ap-
Read full poem →“Tf the peace presently to be made is to en-
dure, it must be a peace made secure by the
organized major force of mankind.” (Ap-
